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In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks; teens with troubled relationships; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots.

This is an anatomy book strictly for the manga artist. Packed with dynamic step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, plus lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this practical guide has everything aspiring beginners need to start drawing convincing manga characters.

This book focuses on both the cartoon-like critters and funny mascots that populate the shoujo (girls') style of manga and the more gritty and Gothic animals that inhabit the shounen (boys') style of manga.

Christopher Hart's clear step-by-step drawings (hundreds of them!) and easy instructions let young people convert familiar animals into manga monsters complete with cool claws, horns, feet, and fur. Turn simple rabbits into atomic bunnies... Transform ordinary mice into alien mice... Make a plain old dinosaur into the mighty belchosaurus!

With Christopher Hart's clear, step-by-step drawings and dynamic, easy-to-follow text, Manga Mnaia Bishoujo shows aspiring artists exactly how to handle anatomy and muscles, hands and nails, seductive outfits, extreme hairstyles, body language, and facial expressions - everything to make manga women strike fear in the hearts of the enemy... and inspire love in the heart of the hero.

Chibis - characters that range from hypercute miniature people to bizarrely sexy furry characters - come in all varieties and all roles, including chibi teenagers, faeries, schoolgirls, nurses, mermaids, devils, angels, and everyone in between. Now Christopher Hart shows readers exactly how to darw chibis, infusing them with personality and creating authentic costumes for them.